From rinehuls@access.digex.net Wed Aug 13 22:28:53 1997 Received: from access2.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA16675 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:28:52 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA27278 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:28:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:28:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2555 - Canadian National Activity Report - FOR PLENARY Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII _______________________ beginning of title page ______________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2555 August 1997 TITLE: Canada National Activity Report for the August 1997 JTC 1/SC22 Plenary SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: This Report will be considered under Agenda Item 7.2 at the August 1997 SC22 Plenary CORSS REFERENCE: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Canada National Activity Report ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies for information. Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Tel: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net __________________ end of title page; beginning of report _______________ CANADIAN STANDARDS ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES CAC/JTC1/SC22 NATIONAL ACTIVITY REPORT ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 MEETING, OTTAWA, CANADA: 18-22 AUGUST 1996 The CSA/CPL currently has 11 members, and continues to meet quarterly, with typically 4-6 attendees at each meeting. Technical advice is provided to CPL by 5 Working Groups (APL, POSIX, Lisp, Internationalization, C++) and 6 Interest Groups (COBOL, Fortran, Ada, Modula-2, Prolog, Formal Specification Languages), which have additional members. All working/interest group chairmen are members of CPL. We also have experts active in C and PCTE, and have recently formed a Java WG, whose members have been active in the SC22 Java Study Group. Members of CPL and its working/interest groups have continued their participation in the SC22 Working Groups for most of the areas listed above. Canada provides the convener for SC22/WG2 (APL), Leroy Dickey, and has hosted, or will be hosting, the meetings of a number of SC22 WGs: - WG14 in Toronto, October 1996, - WG20 in Quebec City, May 1997, - WG3 in Toronto, August 1997, - WG15 in Cornwall, October 1997. However, the membership of working/interest groups has continued to steadily decline, and the total number of experts involved in CPL activities is now less than 50. The decline in the level of participation is mainly due to the decreasing availability of resources, and this is most noticeable in some of our groups that were formerly quite strong (e.g. Fortran, POSIX). Of course, the major activity for CPL in the past year has been our preparations for hosting the 1997 SC22 Plenary meeting. Our thanks go to our sponsors (Cognos Inc, Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd, IBM Canada Ltd, Maurya Software Inc, Nortel Technology, Odyssey Research Associates, Oracle Corp. Canada Inc, Xerox Canada Ltd.), and to the Government Conference Centre for providing the meeting location. Without this generous support, we would have been unable to host the SC22 Plenary. Finally, my special thanks must go to Doug Langlotz of the Standards Council of Canada, for his knowledge and expertise, and Steve Michell of Maurya Software Inc, for his energy and enthusiasm. They have made major contributions in laying the foundations for what we hope will be a successful and enjoyable Plenary. Graham Warren Chairman, CSA/CPL ____________________ end of SC22 N2555 _____________________________